Davies, Ronald B.
2003-08-14T21:20:41Z
2003-08-14T21:20:41Z
2002-01-01
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/90
Model tax treaties do not require tax rate coordination, but do call for either credits or exemptions when calculating a multinational’s domestic taxes. This contradicts recent models with a single capital exporter where deductions are most efficient. I incorporate the fact that many nations import and export capital. With symmetric countries, credits by both is the only treaty equilibrium, resulting in Pareto optimal effective tax rates which weakly dominate the non-treaty equilibrium rates. With asymmetric countries, the treaty need not offer improvements without tax harmonization. With harmonization, it is always possible to reach efficient capital allocations while increasing both countries’ welfares only if neither uses deductions.
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University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics
University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers;2002-7
International economics
Public economics
The OECD Model Tax Treaty: Tax Competition and Two-Way Capital
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Hixson, Carol G., 1955-
Botero, Cecilia
2004-06-15T16:57:05Z
2004-06-15T16:57:05Z
1992
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, Vol. 15(1) 1992 p. 49-73
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/172
p. 49-73
The team approach to original monograph cataloging and serials CONSER upgrades was explored at the University of Florida. Teams of librarians and library assistants worked together to produce a finished product in an effort to handle problematic materials more efficiently. The initial project led to major reworking of assignments and to increased levels of professionalism and cooperation among all levels of cataloging staff.
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Paraprofessionals -- Florida
Cataloging -- Florida
University of Florida -- Libraries
Offloading or staff development? : Team cataloging at the University of Florida
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Haney, Timothy James, 1980-
2010-06-07T21:13:28Z
2010-06-07T21:13:28Z
2009-06
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10445
xvi, 307 p. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
This research contributes to scholarly understanding of the labor market activity of women living in disadvantaged neighborhoods in large U.S. cities, the group most affected by 1996's welfare reform legislation. Welfare reform tightened eligibility for means-tested assistance programs, forcing many women to seek employment despite daunting personal obstacles. This research uncovers the extent to which this subset of women found steady employment in standard, living-wage jobs as well as the reasons why many have not. Unlike most work in this field, it incorporates measures of neighborhood disadvantage to further explore the spatial barriers to employment faced by this demographic group. I ask whether neighborhood context matters for employment outcomes, beyond individual characteristics and circumstances.
Survey data, collected in 1998-1999 and 2001, come from the Project on Devolution and Urban Change, a longitudinal study of 3,916 women living in poor neighborhoods of four U.S. cities. I link these individual data to tract-level U.S. Census data, resulting in a longitudinal, multi-city, geographically-linked dataset, something that no previous published research uses, but an important tool for understanding how neighborhood context affects individual outcomes. The methodological approach involves a combination of regression techniques including pooled logistic regression, ordinary least squares regression, the use of change scores as predictors, the use of lagged endogenous variables, and the derivation of predicted probabilities using results from regression models.
Results of this research indicate that neighborhood disadvantage is of only modest utility in explaining women's work trajectories. Although living in neighborhoods with more car ownership does improve employment outcomes, other neighborhood measures are less important. Some traditional markers of "disadvantage," such as the presence of female-headed (single parent) households, actually facilitate better employment outcomes, suggesting the need to reevaluate traditional notions of neighborhood advantage and disadvantage. Individual barriers to employment, particularly health, childcare and family responsibilities, and individual car ownership are consistently predictive of better employment outcomes. The results suggest the potential importance of spatially-targeted programs aimed at alleviating childcare, health and transportation barriers to employment.
Committee in charge: James Elliott, Chairperson, Sociology;
Ellen Scott, Member, Sociology;
Patricia A. Gwartney, Member, Sociology;
Margaret Hallock, Outside Member, Labor Educ & Research Center
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Sociology, Ph. D., 2009;
Welfare reform
Women -- Employment
Employment
Neighborhood effects
Women's studies
Public policy
Public welfare
Off to the (labor) market: Women, work, and welfare reform in 21st century American cities
Women, work, and welfare reform in 21st century American cities
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Holland, Caroline M., 1986-
2010-02-05T23:55:56Z
2010-02-05T23:55:56Z
2000-12
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10175
ix, 107 p. : maps. A print copy of this thesis is available through the UO Libraries. Search the library catalog for the location and call number.
This study examines the effect oil has on the onset and duration of conflict. In the
"resource curse" literature, researchers argue that a state's abundance in natural resources
can raise the likelihood of civil war. Such findings are largely based on correlations from
large-n statistical studies or are hypotheses from individual case studies. These
approaches fail to check the causal validity of key variables in multiple cases. Using a data-set comprised of sixteen countries that have experienced both oil extraction and civil
war, this study conducts a qualitative causal variable analysis within these cases, while
also checking the causal significance of key variables across cases. This study of oil-related
civil wars analyzes the cross-case validity and overall relevance of: rebel greed,
citizen grievances, unemployment in oil-rich regions, state military spending, clientelistic
patterns of oil rent distribution, and oil-sector nationalization schemes.
Committee in Charge: Dr. Jane K. Cramer, Chair;
Dr. Shaul E. Cohen;
Dr. Anita M. Weiss
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University of Oregon
University of Oregon theses, Interdisciplinary Studies Program: Individualized Program, M.A., 2009;
Natural resources
Oil
Civil war
An Oil Curse? Resource Conflict Onset and Duration
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Simmons, Sherwin
Koehler, June
Koehler, June
2012-10-26T04:03:22Z
2012-10-26T04:03:22Z
2012
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12418
The Spanish artist Josep Renau (1907-1982) published the propaganda
periodical Nueva cultura from 1935 to 1937. Although richly illustrated with cuttingedge
graphic design and photomontage, it made use of popular culture with more
frequency than might be expected in a left-wing, vanguard publication. This is seen
most notably in the March 1937 special edition, published to coincide with a local,
popular festival. In the special edition, Renau primarily utilized popular forms of
illustration in the layout. Further, by publishing it in the regional language rather
than Castilian Spanish, he attested to the importance of addressing people in their
own language, both linguistically and formally. This thesis examines the periodical in
relation to philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin’s writings on folk culture and James V.
Wertsch’s research on collective remembering.
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collective memory
folk culture
Josep Renau
popular culture
propaganda
Spanish civil war
An Old Art for a New Culture: The Popular and the Avant-Garde in Josep Renau's Nueva Cultura
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Hopkins, Samantha
Jacisin, John
2014-09-29T17:52:25Z
2014-09-29
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18420
Newts, abundant worldwide, have unclear pre-Pliocene evolution and phylogenetic relationships. North America has a sporadic pre-Pliocene newt record. Several undescribed fossils can address this lack of information. I built a character matrix of >70 morphological characters for extant newts and two fossil species, Taricha oligocenica and Taricha lindoei. Phylogenetic analyses were used to investigate the relationships of the fossil taxa within newts. The morphology of the fossil taxa was compared with extant North American newts to redescribe the fossil specimens. The past ecology and biogeography of North American fossil newts was compared with their current ecologies and distribution to better understand their evolution and dispersal and to predict possible changes for newts in the face of environmental change. Results indicate that T. oligocenica and T. lindoei are closely-related species nested within Taricha, but their relationships with extant species are unresolved; the genus itself is rooted at least 32 Ma.
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lindoei
newt
oligocenica
Oregon
salamandrid
Taricha
The Oligocene Fossil Caudates of Oregon: Classification, Analysis, and Insights on the Paleoecology and Conservation Biology of Pacific Newts
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2015-09-29
M.S.
masters
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Oregon

Wallace, Paul
Tuohy, Robin
2014-06-17T19:40:40Z
2014-06-17T19:40:40Z
2014-06-17
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/17900
H2O and CO2 concentrations in olivine-hosted melt inclusions, assuming vapor saturation at the time of trapping, can be used to estimate crystallization depths for the olivine host. Estimating the true CO2 in melt inclusions is difficult, as much is lost to shrinkage bubbles, which form upon post-entrapment cooling and crystallization. Reheating olivine to temperatures above the melt inclusion trapping temperature and then quenching rapidly can restore CO2 to the glass because the CO2 in the bubble redissolves at high temperature. Previous work has established that olivine crystallization for the1959 Kilauea Iki eruption took place in the shallow summit reservoir, but crystallization depths have not been established for the rift extension of the eruption, at Kapoho. The new data presented here suggest that the most primitive Kilauea Iki component bypassed the summit reservoir for the east rift zone prior to the start of the eruption and was later erupted at Kapoho.
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Geochemistry
Kilauea Geology
Petrology
Volcanology
Olivine Crystallization Depths within Kilauea's Lower East Rift Zone: The Use of Rehomogenized Melt Inclusions to Interpret Magma Transport, Storage, and Energetic Fountaining
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Department of Geological Sciences
University of Oregon

Shelton, Brad
Kloefkorn, Tyler
2014-09-29T17:46:46Z
2014-09-29
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18372
This dissertation studies new connections between combinatorial topology and homological algebra. To a finite ranked poset Γ we associate a finite-dimensional quadratic graded algebra RΓ. Assuming Γ satisfies a combinatorial condition known as uniform, RΓ is related to a well-known algebra, the splitting algebra AΓ. First introduced by Gelfand, Retakh, Serconek and Wilson, splitting algebras originated from the problem of factoring non-commuting polynomials.
Given a finite ranked poset Γ, we ask a standard question in homological algebra: Is RΓ Koszul? The Koszulity of RΓ is related to a combinatorial topology property of Γ known as Cohen-Macaulay. One of the main theorems of this dissertation is: If Γ is a finite ranked cyclic poset, then Γ is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if Γ is uniform and RΓ is Koszul.
We also define a new generalization of Cohen-Macaulay: weakly Cohen-Macaulay. The class of weakly Cohen-Macaulay finite ranked posets includes posets with disconnected open subintervals. We prove: if Γ is a finite ranked cyclic poset, then Γ is weakly Cohen-Macaulay if and only if RΓ is Koszul.
Finally, we address the notion of numerical Koszulity. We show that there exist algebras RΓ that are numerically Koszul but not Koszul and give a general construction for such examples.
This dissertation includes unpublished co-authored material.
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Cohen-Macaulay
Koszul
Splitting Algebras
On Algebras Associated to Finite Ranked Posets and Combinatorial Topology: The Koszul, Numerically Koszul and Cohen-Macaulay Properties
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2015-03-29
Ph.D.
doctoral
Department of Mathematics
University of Oregon

Magud, Nicolas
2005-12-15T20:00:50Z
2005-12-15T20:00:50Z
2005-05
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1959
26 p.
In the presence of informational frictions and uncertainty, an investment model is developed to capture the asymmetric dynamics of business cycles. When affected by a negative shock, the economy responds differently than when hit by a positive shock, both in terms of size and recovery length. In this set up, the role for fiscal policy in smoothing the effects of business cycles fluctuations depends on the initial conditions of the economy at the time of the shock: based on the degree of fiscal fragility of the government, expansionary fiscal policy might be expansionary or contractionary in terms of output.
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University of Oregon, Dept of Economics
University of Oregon Economics Department Working Papers ; 2005-20
Asymmetric Information
Business cycles
Fiscal fragility
Fiscal policy
On Asymmetric Business Cycles and the Effectiveness of Counter-Cyclical Fiscal Policies
Working Paper

Ostmeier, Dorothee
Adler, Katherine
2014-09-29T17:55:10Z
2014-09-29T17:55:10Z
2014-09-29
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/18441
This thesis analyzes the relationship between German fairy tales and Ecocriticism by examining the similarities and differences in depictions of nature in the tales published by the Brothers Grimm in 1857 and tales written by political activists during Germany's Weimar Republic. "Frau Holle" and "Die drei Schlangenblätter" by the Brothers Grimm present nature as a means to support their bourgeois utopian ideals. On the other hand, the Weimar writers Carl Ewald and Edwin Hörnle's tales "Ein Märchen von Gott und den Königen" and "Der kleine König und die Sonne" (respectively) employ the traditional form of the fairy tale to espouse free-thinking and criticize the weaknesses of the Grimms' utopian ideal. My ecocritical analysis is based on a synthesis of environmental sciences and sociocultural influences.
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University of Oregon
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Ecocriticism
fairy tale
Grimm
nature
Weimar
Once Upon an Ecocritical Analysis: The Nature-Culture of German Fairy Tales and Its Implications
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M.A.
masters
Department of German and Scandinavian
University of Oregon